Re: Congestion in M3UA/SUA and the use of the SCON

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Oct 2005 11:44:53 -0600

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Tolga,

Tolga Asveren wrote:                                                                 (Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:50:19)
> BTW, I just rechecked RFC3332 and it talks about sending SCON from ASP to SG
> is allowed if M3UA layer at ASP or ASP itself is congested. As far as I
> remember the goal was to cover just the M3UA congestion at ASP -because it
> performs certain MTP3 functionality when ASP and SG PCs are different-.
> Basically, I am a bit confused myself right now. Does anybody know the
> rationale behind sending SCON from ASP to SG when ASP -not the M3UA layer of
> ASP but something else- is congested?

To be precise, it should be as a result of "congestion of the Signalling Message
Handling function within M3UA at the ASP": congestion of the SMH function being
the only reason for sending so-called "nodal TFC".

--brian

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